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List Of Government Of India Agencies
This is a list of agencies and departments of the Union Government of India. Ministry of Agriculture *National Centre for Integrated Pest Management *National Horticulture Board (NHB) *National Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Development Board (NOVOD) *National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) * National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) *National Centre for Cold-chain Development (NCCD) - Autonomous agency under PPP mode of functioning. *Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) *Directorate of Marketing & Inspection (DMI)* *Small Farmers' Agri-business Consortium* *CCS National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (CCS NIAM)* Ministry of Panchayati Raj Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers *Department of Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals **Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited **Indian Potash Limited ** National Fertilizers Limited ** Hindustan Insecticides ** Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineering and Technology (CIPET) *Department of Pharmaceu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Agriculture (India)
The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (Hindi: ''Krishi Avam Kisaan Kalyaan Mantralaya''), formerly the Ministry of Agriculture, is a branch of the Government of India and the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws related to agriculture in India. The three broad areas of scope for the Ministry are agriculture, food processing and co-operation. The agriculture ministry is headed by Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar. Abhishek Singh Chauhan, Krishna Raj and Parsottambhai Rupala are the Ministers of State. Sharad Pawar, serving from 22 May 2004 to 26 May 2014, has held the office of Minister of Agriculture for the longest continuous period till date. Origins Department of Revenue and Agriculture and Commerce was set up in June 1871 to deal with all the agricultural matters in India. Until this ministry was established, matters related to agriculture were within the portfolio of the Home Department. In 1881, Department o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airports Authority Of India
The Airports Authority of India, or AAI, is a public sector enterprise under the ownership of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India. It is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining, and managing civil aviation infrastructure in India. It provides Communication Navigation Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) services over Indian airspace and adjoining oceanic areas. AAI is currently managing a total of 137 airports, including 34 international airports, 10 Customs Airports, 81 domestic airports, and 23 Civil enclaves at defense airfields. AAI also has ground installations at all airports and 25 other locations to ensure the safety of aircraft operations. AAI covers all major air routes over Indian landmass via 29 Radar installations at 11 locations along with 700 VOR/DVOR installations co-located with Distance Measuring Equipment (DME). 52 runways are provided with Instrument landing system (ILS) installations with Night Landing Facilities at most o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Economic Zone
A special economic zone (SEZ) is an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. SEZs are located within a country's national borders, and their aims include increasing trade balance, employment, increased investment, job creation and effective administration. To encourage businesses to set up in the zone, financial policies are introduced. These policies typically encompass investing, taxation, trading, quotas, customs and labour regulations. Additionally, companies may be offered tax holidays, where upon establishing themselves in a zone, they are granted a period of lower taxation. The creation of special economic zones by the host country may be motivated by the desire to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). The benefits a company gains by being in a special economic zone may mean that it can produce and trade goods at a lower price, aimed at being globally competitive. In some countries, the zones have been criticized for being l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Patent Office
The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM) generally known as the Indian Patent Office, is an agency under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade which administers the Indian law of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks. History Foundation On 28 February 1856, the Government of India promulgated legislation to grant what was then termed as "exclusive privileges for the encouragement of inventions of new manufactures". On 3 March 1856, a civil engineer, George Alfred DePenning of 7, Grant's Lane, Calcutta petitioned the Government of India for grant of exclusive privileges for his invention — "An Efficient Punkah Pulling Machine". On 2 September, DePenning, submitted the Specifications for his invention along with drawings to illustrate its working. These were accepted and the invention was granted the first ever Intellectual Property protection in India. Amendments to the Patents Act & Rules Amendments (in 1999, 2002, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Directorate General Of Foreign Trade
Directorate may refer to: Contemporary *Directorates of the Scottish Government * Directorate-General, a type of specialised administrative body in the European Union * Directorate-General for External Security, the French external intelligence agency * Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, the premier intelligence service of Pakistan and a division of Pakistan Army * Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India), India's civil safety watch and responsible for investigation for aviation incidents * General Intelligence Directorate (Jordan), the Jordanian state intelligence agency * Intelligence Directorate, the Cuban state intelligence agency * Veterinary Medicines Directorate, an agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom) * Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel), the Israeli Defence Force unit in charge upon collecting information in cooperation with the Mossad * Unit, the Norwegian directorate for information and communications te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department For Promotion Of Industry And Internal Trade
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is a central government department under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in India. It is responsible for formulation and implementation of promotional and developmental measures for growth of the industrial sector, keeping in view the national priorities and socio-economic objectives. While individual administrative ministries look after the production, distribution, development and planning aspects of specific industries allocated to them, DPIIT is responsible for the overall industrial policy. It is also responsible for facilitating and increasing the foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to the country. The department in its current form came into being on 27 January 2019, when the erstwhile Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion was renamed to Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) after internal trade was added to its mandate. The current Minister is Piyush Goyal while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Commerce And Industry (India)
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry administers two departments, the Department of Commerce and the Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade. The head of the Ministry is a Minister of Cabinet rank. Minister of Commerce and Industry The Minister of Commerce and Industry is the head of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India. The first Minister of Commerce and Industry of independent India was Syama Prasad Mukherjee. The current Minister is Piyush Goyal of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Goyal took over from Suresh Prabhu on 31 May 2019. Past Ministers: Industry Past Ministers: Commerce Present : Commerce & Industry List of Ministers of State Department of Commerce The department is entrusted with formulating and implementing the foreign trade policy and responsibilities relating to multilateral and bilateral commercial relations, state trading, export promotion measures, and development and reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation
Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation (CMPF) is an agency of the Indian government The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, ... established in 1948 under ''The Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1948''. It serves as the official pension fund of coal miners and is financed by coal producers on a per-tonne basis. The fund pays the pensions of about 500,000 former coal miners, and has been considered financially precarious since 2017. References {{Energy Ministries and Departments of India 1948 establishments in India Government agencies established in 1948 Government agencies for energy (India) Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Coal organizations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singareni Collieries Company
The Singareni Collieries Company Limited or SCCL is a government-owned-coal mining corporation in India. It is under the ownership of Department of Energy, Government of Telangana. The Union Government's administration of the company is through the 49% ownership held by Ministry of Coal. SCCL is currently operating 45 mines where 20 opencast and 25 underground mines in 6 districts of Telangana (erstwhile 4 districts of AP) with a manpower around 45,079 as of Nov. 2020. SCCL is contributing 9.2% in the all India Domestic Production. Since inception (1889) 1.36 BT of Coal is extracted by SCCL and it has proved reserves of 10.84 BT. History In the year 1871, Dr. William King of the Geological Survey of India discovered coal near Yellandu in Khammam district and one of the important coal seams bore his name. He named the upper seam of the coal as Queen seam and the lower seam as King seam. The Hyderabad (Deccan) Company Limited incorporated in England acquired mining rights in 1886 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neyveli Lignite Corporation
NLC India Limited (NLC) (formerly Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited) is a central public sector undertaking under the administrative control of the Ministry of Coal, Government of India. It annually produces about 30 million tonnes of Lignite from opencast mines at Neyveli in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India and at Barsingsar in Bikaner district of Rajasthan state. The lignite is used at pithead thermal power stations of 3640 MW installed capacity to produce electricity. Its joint venture has a 1000 MW thermal power station using coal. Lately, it has diversified into renewable energy production and installed 1404 MW solar power plant to produce electricity from photovoltaic (PV) cells and 51 MW electricity from windmills. It was incorporated in 1956 and was wholly owned by the Government of India. A small portion of its stock was sold to the public to list its shares on stock exchanges where its shares are traded. History Lignite deposit was found by chance when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coal India
Coal India Limited (CIL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Coal, Government of India. It is headquartered at Kolkata. It is the ''largest government-owned-coal-producer'' in the world. It is also the seventh largest employer in India with nearly 272,000 employees. The psu contributes around 82% to the total coal production in India. It produced 554.14 million tonnes of raw coal in 2016–17, an increase from its earlier production of 494.24 million tonnes of coal during FY 2014–15 and earned revenues of from sale of coal in the same financial year. In April 2011, CIL was conferred the Maharatna status by the Government of India, making it one of the seven with that status. As of 14 October 2015, CIL is a PSU owned by the Central Government of India which controls its operations through the Ministry of Coal. As of 14 October 2015, CIL's market capitalisation stood at making it India's 8th most valuable company. CI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
